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I just want to say thank you to everyone who took part in the forum over the years and I hope to see you all on our Facebook group.

We have a tank with various fish and have mistakenly managed to breed our bristlenose plecos.

We're unsure what to do with them now. There are approximately 30 whizzing around the tank. Obviously our tank isn't big enough to cope with that number of babies but we're worried about catching them and rehoming them. They're SO fast and really tricky to net and none of the local pet shops take babies from private homes as they all have supplier contracts.

The biggest babies are about 2cm long now and the smallest are less then a cm so we are assuming there are at least 2 batches. We will also need to regime mummy or daddy as we can't keep having babies.

As Barry said we waited until ours were slightly larger than an inch or two and sold them on local groups and adverts in the petstores, shops. I was selling them at 2 for a fiver but it was several years back, now your lucky if you get a pound each. My male died sadly so it stopped my breeding regime.